§ Mr. Masonasked the Postmaster-General when he estimates that all Crown post offices will have an all-purpose service system.
§ Mr. MawbyCurrent plans provide for introduction of all-purpose service at all offices where the system can be shown to offer the best service to the public, generally at offices with up to 9 serving positions (excluding parcels). One thousand four hundred and eighty of the 1,640 Crown offices in this category now have the system: extension to the other 160 awaits rebuilding or modernisation schemes. Trials of the system at the larger offices, of which there are about 160, will start shortly, I cannot say, at 205W this stage, whether and when all our 1,800 Crown offices will have all purpose service: there may be some whose size, or the exceptional character of the business transacted, make it desirable to have another system of working.